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-rw-r--r--builtin-symbolic-ref.c3
-rw-r--r--path.c4
-rwxr-xr-xt/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh41
3 files changed, 46 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-symbolic-ref.c b/builtin-symbolic-ref.c
index bfc78bb3f..cafc4eba7 100644
--- a/builtin-symbolic-ref.c
+++ b/builtin-symbolic-ref.c
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
check_symref(argv[0], quiet);
break;
case 2:
+ if (!strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD") &&
+ prefixcmp(argv[1], "refs/heads/"))
+ die("Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/heads/");
create_symref(argv[0], argv[1], msg);
break;
default:
diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
index a074aea64..108d9e959 100644
--- a/path.c
+++ b/path.c
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ int validate_headref(const char *path)
/* Make sure it is a "refs/.." symlink */
if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
len = readlink(path, buffer, sizeof(buffer)-1);
- if (len >= 5 && !memcmp("refs/", buffer, 5))
+ if (len >= 11 && !memcmp("refs/heads/", buffer, 11))
return 0;
return -1;
}
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ int validate_headref(const char *path)
len -= 4;
while (len && isspace(*buf))
buf++, len--;
- if (len >= 5 && !memcmp("refs/", buf, 5))
+ if (len >= 11 && !memcmp("refs/heads/", buf, 11))
return 0;
}
diff --git a/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh b/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..569f34177
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='basic symbolic-ref tests'
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+# If the tests munging HEAD fail, they can break detection of
+# the git repo, meaning that further tests will operate on
+# the surrounding git repo instead of the trash directory.
+reset_to_sane() {
+ echo ref: refs/heads/foo >.git/HEAD
+}
+
+test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref writes HEAD' '
+ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/foo &&
+ echo ref: refs/heads/foo >expect &&
+ test_cmp expect .git/HEAD
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref reads HEAD' '
+ echo refs/heads/foo >expect &&
+ git symbolic-ref HEAD >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref refuses non-ref for HEAD' '
+ test_must_fail git symbolic-ref HEAD foo
+'
+reset_to_sane
+
+test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref refuses non-branch for HEAD' '
+ test_must_fail git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/foo
+'
+reset_to_sane
+
+test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref refuses bare sha1' '
+ echo content >file && git add file && git commit -m one
+ test_must_fail git symbolic-ref HEAD `git rev-parse HEAD`
+'
+reset_to_sane
+
+test_done